Understanding Genocide (eBook, ePUB)

The Social Psychology of the Holocaust
Redaktion: Newman, Leonard S.; Erber, Ralph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents contemporary social psychological theory and research to shed light on why seemingly normal people would participate in genocide. Focusing on the Holocaust, the book covers how difficult life conditions, scapegoating, cultural beliefs, conformity and obedience, personality, and self-deception may have served to facilitate the initiation of genocide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190285333
• Artikelnr.: 42643832

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Part I: Becoming a Perpetrator
* 1: The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers
* 2: What is a 'Social-Psychological' Account of Perpetrator Behaviour?
The Person Versus the Situation in Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing
Executioners
* 3: Authoritarianism and the Holocaust: Some Cognitive and Affective
Implications
* 4: Perpetrator Behaviour as Destructive Obedience: An Evaluation of
Stanley Milgram's Perspective, the Most Influential
Social-Psychological Approach to the Holocaust
* Part II: Beyond the Individual: Groups and Collectives
* 5: Sacrifice Lambs Dressed in Wolves' Clothing: Envious Prejudice,
Ideology, and the Scapegoating of Jews
* 6: Group Processes and the Holocaust
* 7: Examining the Implications of Cultural Frames on Social Movements
and Group Action
* 8: Population and Predators: Preconditions for the Holocaust from a
Control-Theoretical Perspective
* 9: The Zoomorphism of Human Collective Violence
* Part III: Dealing with Evil
* 10: The Holocaust and the Four Roots of Evil
* 11: Instigators of Genocide: Examining Hitler from a Social
Psychological Perspective
* 12: Perpetrators with a Clear Conscience: Lying Self-Deception and
Belief Change
* 13: Explaining the Holocaust: Does Social Psychology Exonerate the
Perpetrators?
* 14: Epilogue: Social Psychologists Confront the Holocaust